Past Programs
Grammar and Syntax - 2008
Poetry special: The Glugs of Gosh by CJ Dennis Read Transcript
14/05/2008
CJ Dennis is best known for The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke but for many readers The Glugs of Gosh is a favourite. The chance to relish the political satire, to take delight in the rhyme—Gosh and Splosh, profundity and rotundity, Ogs and Podge—and to recite such full-bodied words explains the joy many take in this work. Once again Lyn Gallacher is our guide through this world of Gosh.
After this program went to air one of our listeners, Greg Hall from Hobart, kindly sent us pictures of his own 1917 copy of The Glugs of Gosh. You can see them by downloading the pdf files below:
Dust jacket
Hard cover
Illustrated Frontispiece
Printed details
Cover of special edition for use in the trenches
Poetry special: Rockpool by Judith Wright Read Transcript
13/05/2008
In the second in this special series dedicated to classic Australian poems Lyn Gallacher focuses on 'Rockpool', one of Judith Wright's later works. It's a dramatically unsentimental poem which is unflinching in its view of life and death.
Complete works of Shakespeare: a new edition Read Transcript
09/05/2008
You may think you know everything about William Shakespeare but which version of Shakespeare have you read? Jonathan Bate is a Shakespeare scholar and is responsible for a new edition of complete works. He says past editions have been flawed - the look of them, the language and text they were based on. Bate went back to Shakespeare's first folio from 1623 to create his new edition.
The plight of book reviewing with Gail Pool Read Transcript
25/03/2008
Gail Pool thinks that book reviewing, especially in America where she is based, is in crisis. In Faint Praise she asks what has gone wrong with book reviewing and has some suggestions for improvements.
Nick Earls and Rebecca Sparrow set the story straight
10/03/2008
It's unusual for novels to be co-written, but that's what Rebecca Sparrow and Nick Earls have done with Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight. It's a novel in two voices about two final year high school students who hate each other with a passion but who are forced to work together on a joint writing assignment -- a tandem story. Rebecca and Nick talk to Peter Mares about writing their own tandem story.
